This is a study of colonial encounters as articulated in the novels Bengal Nights: A Novel and It Does Not Die: A Romance written by Mircea Eliade and
Maitreyi Devi respectively. By revisiting these texts through Nirmala Menon’s critical insights on Bhabha’s hybridity discourse and Elisabeth Jackson’s conceptual parameters of Indian feminism, the aim is to reinterpret the novels as emancipatory praxis that both the writers long for in their (post)colonial narratives. Besides, this rereading of the novels is garnered from Bhabha and Spivak’s respective postcolonial theories, to contribute to the existing scholarship on postcolonial studies.